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[MagmaDeath]

Apparently I killed someone, despite being exceptionally careful not to kill anyone. I don't know how that works, unless robots/turrets count... Which they shouldn't.
Although there was that one point where:

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You save Malik, I blew up the robot it dropped with an EMP grenade, but I was worried I might have hit someone with the blast or something.

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The EMP woudnt have killed them, though the robots self destruct might have, or one of the explosive barrels scattered about.

[Vattic]

Make liberal use of grenades and cover and you should be okay if you have enough ammo. I took him down with a pistol and a few EMP grenades.

Thanks for the advice. My one grenade means I'll need to backtrack or restart. Luckily I saved before getting a ride to this place. I can dump the rocket launcher in the apartment and come back with plenty of room to buy EMP grenades.

I really enjoyed sneaking through this place. I'd avoided killing anybody before getting to the cells (after the big robot). Abusing the AI made this part far too easy. I kept opening and then popping out from behind a door and killing each guard, one at a time, with a shot to the head. The opening and closing electric door should have been a big hint.

[Silfurdreki]

There's a series of sidequests where you find out more about Adam's background.

What was up with that anyway?

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That whole questline just ended way too abruptly with the old senile nurse in Detroit, I was expecting it to come to some kind of closure before the game ended, but it didn't. Adam's real parents weren't even mentioned after that point. I imagine finding out that you are a genetical experiment and your parents died saving you from evil corporations would have more on an impact on someone. Also, what's up with not looking into White Helix labs? I mean, Jensen was experimented on there the first years of his life, wouldn't he want to know what kind of place it was? Was it part of the whole Illuminati conspiracy thing? In the game it's just mentioned in passing that it was where he was born.

Also, something I was curious about:

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If Malik dies at the construction site, who comes and picks up the scientists at Omega Ranch? Just some random dude?

[timferius]

Changing topic a bit, anyone check what the big announcment was? It's early morning here and I'm at work, so I didn't have a chance to check the game, and the wobsite says nothing.

[hemmingjay]

there is a topic about it at the official forums. http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=120594&page=9

[umiman]

Well.. just finished it.

The ending was... disappointing... and a bit bizzare.

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Zombies? Seriously?

[Virtz]

I'm not sure if these have already been posted, but I'll just leave them here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LQZeY1q5dY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bPvAe86KyWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FceWXrab87A&feature=feedu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7rVRpZy0iw#

[timferius]

So, I had thought to myself "you know, maybe the bossfights aren't bad, like an article had said, it sort of states that sometimes, there's no option but to fight." Then, I got to the first one...

After banging my head against the wall trying to use my skillz and stealth and plans and stuff for about 45 minutes. I gave up, walked up to him, and just shot him approx. 20 times with the stun gun, with one frag grenade in between... lame.

[Ivefan]

After banging my head against the wall trying to use my skillz and stealth and plans and stuff for about 45 minutes. I gave up, walked up to him, and just shot him approx. 20 times with the stun gun, with one frag grenade in between... lame.

Yup. the bosses just sucked.
I know its a game and the player have to be given a chance to get past things... but to mention one thing(amongst others) that irritated my rational senses.
In the room with all the alarm lasers in 'evil augment company' building, I passed them all and turned them off, then i open the guard room which caused one to walk out, look around and return.
1: a door suddenly opening with no one around is grounds for a good area search, right?
2: Ignoring the blatant lack of lasers flashing around in this high security room is in the job description.

[MagmaDeath]

There's a series of sidequests where you find out more about Adam's background.

Also, something I was curious about:

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If Malik dies at the construction site, who comes and picks up the scientists at Omega Ranch? Just some random dude?

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There is a ship(?) already there, which one of the scientists already knows how to fly

[dragonshardz]

RE: The big announcement, I was playing and the game had some random text where the newsbar was. Tried to get a screencap, but it didn't catch the game window.

[timferius]

if you look at the link hemmingjay provided above, it's some sort of code. They've been dropping hints on twitter/reddit/everywhere that seem to be chunks of a cipher, but once it's deciphered with plain substition, it's still gibberish.

[forsaken1111]

So is this a bad attempt at an ARG or something portalish?

[timferius]

Dunno, it hurts my brain a bit. I'm betting it's just a super simple ARG, and everyones overthinking it.

[timferius]

There, someone at the forums just cracked the code, by deciphering only capitals (dur). http://13311tower.com/ .... looks like stage two, unless I'm missing something.